Real Majority, Media Minority: The Costs of Sidelining Women in Reporting - Softcover
Analyzes the structure and habits of commerical news media and finds that, while more women are working in the U.S. news media than before, coverage of women's issues is still inadequate
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A long-time writer and journalist, Laura Flanders is producer and host of the nationally syndicated radio program "CounterSpin," and is director of the Women's Desk at FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), the media watch group.
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"...If only there were a hundred of her." -- Susan Faludi
"...This book confirms what a terrific heterodogmatiser Laura is. Anyone who craves something different from the Authorized version of life, politics and our history should have this book." -- Alexander Cockburn
"An eloquent indictment of the mainstream media's dismissal of women's lives and perspectives." -- Urvashi Vaid
"Funny, angry, fact-filled and brilliant. I wish I had written it myself!" -- Katha Pollitt
"Laura Flanders has arrived, scintillant with wit, intelligence, polemical grace." -- June Jordan
While a few women have become multi-million dollar earners, the perspectives of most women are still sidelined. Author Laura Flanders maintains that this is not just sexism, it's also bad reporting. Real Majority, Media Minority gathers together into one collection almost ten years of Flanders' extraordinary essays and interviews analyzing the structure and habits of commercial news media. In an eloquent argument, Flanders says it's time to go beyond simple "bean counting". What's critical isn't who's telling the story, but how the story's being told. " Real Majority, Media Minority is a very badly needed contribution to journalism and women's studies reading lists. -- Midwest Book Review
"...This book confirms what a terrific heterodogmatiser Laura is. Anyone who craves something different from the Authorized version of life, politics and our history should have this book." -- Alexander Cockburn
"An eloquent indictment of the mainstream media's dismissal of women's lives and perspectives." -- Urvashi Vaid
"Funny, angry, fact-filled and brilliant. I wish I had written it myself!" -- Katha Pollitt
"Laura Flanders has arrived, scintillant with wit, intelligence, polemical grace." -- June Jordan
While a few women have become multi-million dollar earners, the perspectives of most women are still sidelined. Author Laura Flanders maintains that this is not just sexism, it's also bad reporting. Real Majority, Media Minority gathers together into one collection almost ten years of Flanders' extraordinary essays and interviews analyzing the structure and habits of commercial news media. In an eloquent argument, Flanders says it's time to go beyond simple "bean counting". What's critical isn't who's telling the story, but how the story's being told. " Real Majority, Media Minority is a very badly needed contribution to journalism and women's studies reading lists. -- Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherCommon Courage Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1567510906
- ISBN 13 9781567510904
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages293
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